Unix domain socket leak in 6-STABLE

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Wed Jun 13 16:36:14 UTC 2007


On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:45 +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein  
<uspoerlein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as you are aware, there is a unix domain socket leak in 6-STABLE,
> which AFAIK is not yet fully fixed.
>
> I wanted to ask about the status or some possible fixes, as I know a
> way to reproduce the problem in a matter of minutes.
>
> We are running Cyrus and Postfix with the user DB in OpenLDAP. When
> using ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fopenldap%2fldapi/ as a connection URL for
> both Postfix' user lookup and cyrus' user lookup (via nss_ldap). slapd
> quickly runs out of filedescriptors as it is not closing any unix
> sockets (judging by ever increasing lsof output).

Shouldn't slapd close its unix socket? Or am I misreading this.

> Using TCP sockets is just fine. If there are patches I could try,
> don't hesitate to send them to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Uli

Ronald.


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  Ronald Klop
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